I struck a deal. I got time off twice in one day, took to my bed and read. In great gulps, the way I used to read, when I took multiple books out of the library on a Saturday, and had read half of them by the same evening. This kind of reading is hard …
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When you can’t hear yourself write
I’m on early riser duty this morning. When it comes to getting through holidays, it’s all about divide and conquer, especially when neither adult is good at mornings. So we take it in turns. Two of us are writing stories this morning, except my device doesn’t have built-in music or “wow! Good job” type comments. …
On complex characters
Reading a chapter of Horrid Henry out loud this morning. As you do in holiday week. Part of the fun is what it tells us about our strengths and our limitations. Perfect Peter is of course more goody goody than feasible, but in today’s chapter, he also seems to have an OCD thing happening with …
Write it like you’re just across from me
Charity shop trip turns up six new audio CDs. Because they were free with newspapers, shop can’t charge me for them…though I give them a donation instead. Audio CDs – or story tapes as we end up calling them, showing our age – have become a small obsession in the last year or two. Mine, …
Book Bag pt. 2
Library trips are often followed by a great big luxurious readathon at home. That didn’t happen this time, but managed to look at a few, which probably means that’s why I remembered them. Here are the ones I didn’t remember first off: – One about a flying cat, Blue. Michael Rosen on words, Michael Foreman …